“A Question of Faith” is a feature article because it shares entertaining and factual information about a true situation. “A Real Surprise” is realistic fiction because it includes A an explanation of a special way to train small animals.

B a moral lesson about not giving up even when things look their worst.

C a believable story with characters similar to people you know.

D a description of a character dealing with a difficult problem.

-Story- ((A Question of Faith))

1 How many legs does a dog have? If you answered “four,” you haven’t met Faith, the wonder dog!

2 Now, Faith isn’t the first dog to learn to walk on fewer than four legs. Many dogs have learned to walk on three legs, after losing their fourth leg to sickness or an injury. But Faith had to learn a more difficult lesson than that. She had to learn to walk on just two legs.

3 When she was found, Faith had two strong back legs and one front leg. Her front leg, however, was twisted backwards and difficult for her to use, so it was removed when she was seven months old.

4 In the beginning, Faith was listless and mopey. She did not want to do anything, but the family that rescued her realized Faith couldn’t just lie around. If she stayed on the floor all day, her body would develop sores from the constant rubbing and pressure. She had to become mobile, but training her to walk wasn’t going to be easy. First, she would have to learn to hop. Faith needed some kind of motivation, so her owners took her out in the snow.

5 “We knew that it was going to be cold,” said Jude, one of Faith’s owners, “She had a choice to make. She could freeze or she could hop.”

6 Now, they would never have actually let Faith freeze, but Faith got the message. They rewarded her with peanut butter, first for one hop, then for two. Suddenly, Faith was a regular kangaroo. Eventually, she even learned to walk and run!

7 Today, her two legs work so well that she almost looks like a person when she walks around the room—a person with big, floppy ears and a cold, wet nose.